HEADINGTON, a parish in the hundred of BULLINGTON, county of OXFORD, 1 mile (E.N.E.) from Oxford, containing 1087 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage not in charge, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. T, H. Whorwood. The church is, dedicated to St. Andrew. A school for children of both sexes is endowed with the interest of £400, the gift of CatherineMather in 1805; there is a spacious lunatic asylum. The colleges in Oxford, and other public buildings, have been principally erected with stone dug in Headingtori quarry: a great quantity of bricks is made here. A field, called Court Close is said to be the site of one of the palaces of King Etheldred.